Mother wins battle to keep sole custody of child in same-sex dispute
Image via Wikipedia In a case that is reminiscent of the now-famous Lisa Miller case, a biological mother has retained the sole custody of her daughter after a court ruled in her favor in a dispute with her former same- sex partner . The Supreme Court of Ohio upheld lower court rulings on Tuesday that Kelly Mullen, who had allowed her same-sex partner, Michele Hobbs, to “coparent” Mullen’s daughter, who was born via in vitro fertilization while the two women were in a relationship, did not permanently give up her right to exclusive custody of the child. The court ruled that it was a revocable relationship and did not create a permanent shared custody agreement with the partner. “‘ Coparenting ’ is not synonymous with an agreement by the biological parent to permanently relinquish sole custody in favor of shared legal parenting,” the ruling stated, thereby recognizing the need to protect the biological mother’s constitutional rights to raise her chil...